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Lambertia fairallii Keighery
Fairall's Honeysuckle

Reference
Bot.Jahrb.Syst. 104:180-182 (1983)
Conservation Code
Threatened
A taxon name retains its ‘Threatened’ status until a new name has been officially endorsed and appears in the Gazettal Notice.
Naturalised Status
Native to Western Australia
Name Status
Current

Dense, erect, non-lignotuberous shrub, to 1.5 m high. Fl. yellow, May or Sep or Nov or Jan. Skeletal rocky soils, sandy or silty clay over shalestone or quartzite. Low to mid slopes of range, edge of breakaway.

Amanda Spooner, Descriptive Catalogue, 20 May 2003
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Scientific Description

Shrubs; branchlets glabrous or hairy. Leaves whorled, 30-45 mm long, 2-7 mm wide, hairy; lamina flat, widest around the middle or more or less the same width throughout, entire, the margins recurved; apex pungent, 1-1.5 mm long. Inflorescences yellow; innermost bracts 25-27 mm long. Perianth 40-42 mm long, hairy; pistil 42-45 mm long, style hairy. Flowers in January, May, June, July, August or September. Occurs in the South-west (SW) Botanical Province(s), in the Esperance Plains (ESP) IBRA subregion(s). : Conservation code Threatened (T).

C. Hollister and K.R. Thiele, 19 January 2024

Distribution

IBRA Regions
Esperance Plains.
IBRA Subregions
Fitzgerald.
Local Government Areas (LGAs)
Cranbrook, Gnowangerup, Plantagenet.